ABOUT THIS ALBUM

Album Notes

Ghosts and Gossip is a collection of powerfully charged songs crammed with emotion and adolescent maturity. Two years in the making, all songs are penned and performed by 18 year old, Chase Walsh-one of Chicago’s top young singer songwriters.

These passionately electric stories burst with love and loss and the spirited friendship that helps guide him through the day to day life of a high school Senior. This is the story of Chase Walsh-filled with uncertainty and promise, crammed full of fear and hope, heaping with beauty and irony.

“We’re all dying slowly. Some of us faster than others. You might as well come with me. We can chill until it’s all over,” (Reek) exemplifies young love overcoming worry while we “sit in a desk and learn how to sit in a desk” (We’re Young) waves an angry fist at the very classroom that he might look back on one day and miss.

(Powerlines) carves out the sad realization that summer is closing almost as fast as a relentless girlfriends sad eyes as she is let down (not so easily) in favor of his friends who "always have my back- the coolest losers –running beneath powerlines”

The Title track (Ghosts & Gossip) beckons a high school sweetheart, “Why don’t you kiss me?” while seemingly endless guitar drives (Homecoming Queen), to an furiously exhaustive end-“We’re running faster.”

The instrumental (Screw This) showcases his musical aptitude while showing respect for some of his favorite artists, Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky while (Fresh Out of Happy Pills) summons his folksy Dylan side - showing off the unique vocal style that have been turning heads since he picked up his first guitar.